2019 W Series Assen round, Report, Championship race
Upon taking the lead, Kimiläinen would sprint away at nearly a second a lap and would take a comfortable win over Alice Powell, Jamie Chadwick and Beitske Visser. Caitlin Wood and Gosia Rdest would achieve season-best results behind with fifth and sixth, while Jessica Hawkins would score her first points of the season in seventh. The top ten would be rounded out by Vittoria Piria, Marta García and Sarah Moore. Poor results for García and Wohlwend would see the championship fight narrowed down to just Chadwick and Visser, with thirteen points separating the pair. Kimiläinen's dominant performance would also see her claim the first 'Grand Slam' (pole position, fastest lap of the race and race win) in W Series history.


2019 W Series Assen round, Report, Non-championship race
The following day, a non-championship race was held in order to test a reverse-grid format. All 20 drivers would line up for a W Series race for the first time, with the grid set in reverse championship order. Megan Gilkes would therefore start the race from pole position, ahead of reserve driver Sarah Bovy and Shea Holbrook.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round
The 2019 W Series Brands Hatch round (also commercially referred to as #WRace6) was the sixth and final round of the 2019 W Series, and took place at Brands Hatch in the United Kingdom on 11 August 2019. The event was an undercard to the 2019 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters round at the same circuit.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Background
Heading into the final round, two drivers were in contention for the championship – Jamie Chadwick and Beitske Visser. Chadwick, winner of the opening round at Hockenheim as well as in Misano, sits 13 points ahead of Zolder winner Visser. For Visser to win the championship she needs:


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Background
If Visser were to finish 3rd with Chadwick 9th, that would also see both drivers draw level on 100 points apiece however Chadwick would win the championship with two wins to Visser's one.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Background
With the top 12 in the championship at seasons' end automatically invited to return to the series in 2020, seven drivers have guaranteed their place should they choose to return – Chadwick, Visser, Marta García, Alice Powell, Fabienne Wohlwend, Emma Kimiläinen and Miki Koyama.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Background
The day before the event began, W Series management confirmed that both reserve drivers, Vivien Keszthelyi and Sarah Bovy, would take part in the final round of the championship – the first time all 20 drivers would be on track in a championship race.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Practice
The opening session of the weekend would be dominated by Emma Kimiläinen, setting the first representative time and never relinquishing the lead despite wet-dry conditions. Championship leader Chadwick would be second with a time 4-tenths slower than the Finn, with 3rd placed Sarah Moore over a second behind Kimiläinen. It would be a disastrous start to the event for championship challenger Visser, finishing the session 20th and last with electrical problems. Elsewhere, Miki Koyama would suffer from technical issues while Sabré Cook would bring out the yellow flags with a spin into the gravel at Druids.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Practice
The weather would clear for FP2 and once again it would be the series' Flying Finn who would finish atop the session, three tenths ahead of Alice Powell and a full second ahead of Chadwick. Visser would finish 8th, seven tenths behind Chadwick and directly behind Fabienne Wohlwend – who would bring out the red flag with a spin at Paddock Hill Bend. Cook would once again beach the #37 during the session. Reserve drivers Bovy and Keszthelyi would finish the final practice session of the season in 16th and 20th respectively.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Qualifying
The championship ended the same way it started, with Chadwick on pole position. British drivers would complete the top three, with Powell second and Esmee Hawkey a surprise third. Kimiläinen would finish the session fourth having fought Powell for pole position across the majority of the session, with Visser and Wohlwend setting identical times in fifth and sixth however – crucially for Visser – the Dutchwoman would set her time first, gifting her the higher position.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Qualifying
Further down the field, Marta García continued her form slump from Assen qualifying 11th. Rdest and Wood had a turnaround of fortunes from the previous round, qualifying 13th and 14th respectively and under threat of losing their top 12 positions in the championship to third-placed Hawkey. Shea Holbrook would have the only incident of the session, spinning at the exit of Stirlings in the dying minutes.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Race
Chadwick led the race from pole position, however Hawkey stalled the car from P3 on the grid. Wohlwend would also get a slow start, however was only overtaken by Koyama as the stalling Hawkey provided a bottleneck on the grid. Koyama's joy would be short-lived, as she was handed a drive-through penalty for being out of position on the grid. Further compounding to Hawkey's woes, the Briton was also handed a PLP for a jump-start. Further down the field, Sarah Bovy received a mechanical black flag for a broken front wing.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Race
Second placed Powell began exerting pressure on race leader Chadwick, and with ten minutes of the race time elapsed the older Briton snuck up the inside of the championship leader at Paddock Hill Bend. Emma Kimiläinen, having benefitted from Hawkey's stall, also took advantage of Powell's move and went around the outside of Chadwick at Graham Hill Bend. This allowed championship challenger Visser to close on Chadwick, however she could not get the move done. Koyama's troublesome afternoon continued with a trip into the gravel at Paddock Hill.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Race
The race would soon get worse for the Japanese driver, with a spin on the entry to Sheene Curve prompting the deployment of the Safety Car. The top five would breakaway from the fight for sixth between Vittoria Piria and Jessica Hawkins on the restart, and the championship combatants would begin to fight. With three laps remaining, Chadwick would run wide at Westfield, with Visser sneaking up the inside at Dingle Dell with two wheels on the grass. The loss of position would allow Wohlwend to close up to the championship leader in the fight for 4th place.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Race
Following 21 laps, Alice Powell would become the fifth and final winner of the season, with Kimiläinen close behind in second and Visser taking the final podium position in third. Chadwick would hold onto fourth place and clinched the title by ten points ahead of Wohlwend in fifth, who slipped behind Kimiläinen in the championship and missed the overall top five by two points. Piria and Hawkins would hold station in sixth and seventh, with Hawkins crucially claiming twelfth in the championship and the last automatic invitation to the 2020 season.


2019 W Series Brands Hatch round, Report, Race
The top ten positions would be rounded out by Marta García, Sabré Cook and Sarah Moore. Caitlin Wood's 11th place would see her miss the championship top 12 by one point, whereas a P12 finish for Tasmin Pepper did not seriously hinder her championship and remained inside the top ten. 13th place for Gosia Rdest dropped her outside the invite slots, and Keszthelyi finished as the best reserve driver in both the race and championship with 14th. Naomi Schiff rounded off a mediocre season with 15th, and Hawkey's weekend of promise ended in a 16th place. Holbrook beat Megan Gilkes in the battle of the backmarkers to 17th, Bovy's broken wing left her 19th and Koyama rounded out the field in 20th and two laps down.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round
The 2019 W Series Hockenheim round (also commercially referred to as #WRace1) was the first round of the 2019 W Series, and took place at the Hockenheimring in Germany on 4 May 2019. The event was an undercard to the 2019 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters round at the same circuit.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Background
The event was the inaugural round of the W Series, and the first professionally organised female-only motorsport event since the final round of the Formula Woman championship for Caterhams was held at Brands Hatch in 2006.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Background
61 drivers successfully submitted applications to contest the championship, and were required to attend an evaluation day to become part of the 18-driver grid. This evaluation, held at Austria's Wachauring, cut the number of applicants from 61 to 28, with the remainder going on to test the series-spec Tatuus–Alfa Romeo F3 T-318 at the Circuito de Almería before series judges selected the 18 regular drivers and 4 reserve drivers.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Background
Only 54 drivers attended the 26–28 January evaluation, which consisted of 10 modules related to teamwork, fitness and media preparation along with various driving-based skill tests. Among those who did not advance to the test day were former GP3 Series drivers Samin Gómez and Carmen Jordá (the latter a series advocate who did not attend), former Australian Formula 3 driver Chelsea Angelo and former U.S.F1600 champion Ayla Ågren. The five-day test with the series cars on 22–27 March further whittled down the list of applicants, with the likes of ARCA Series driver Natalie Decker and former MSV Formula 2 driver Natalia Kowalska also missing the cut.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Background
The only proper testing for the series regular and reserve drivers was held at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz a fortnight prior to the Hockenheim event, with Marta García emerging quickest.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Practice
First practice was topped by reigning MRF Challenge champion Jamie Chadwick, who put the #55 half a second ahead of the experienced Finn Emma Kimiläinen and Ferrari sportscar driver Fabienne Wohlwend. Clutch issues sidelined Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain driver Esmee Hawkey whilst American Shea Holbrook brought out the only red flag of the session.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Practice
The top three remained the same in the second session, despite the onset of rain. The gaps however increased from 0.5 to 0.9 seconds across the trio of Chadwick, Kimiläinen and Wohlwend. Drivers struggled to adapt to the conditions, with both Tasmin Pepper and Jessica Hawkins spinning into the gravel and bringing out red flags – the latter returning to the garage on the back of a tow-truck.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Practice
Series reserve drivers Sarah Bovy and Vivien Keszthelyi joined the regular field of 18 for Friday practice. In Practice 1, Bovy placed 11th and Keszthelyi 17th, however both were at the bottom of the timesheets in the wet second session.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Qualifying
Qualifying was held in wet conditions. Beitske Visser set the early pace, however ended up watching the majority of the session from the sidelines with turbocharger failure, and Chadwick soon surpassed her. By the mid-portion of the session, Chadwick put herself 1.7 seconds ahead of the rest of the pack led by Sarah Moore. Wohlwend was the one to break the 1-second margin held by Chadwick with ten minutes remaining, however the Briton continued to set the pace becoming the first to set a time under the 2-minute mark in the damp session.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Qualifying
The red flag came out with 3 and a half minutes remaining following a spin into the gravel at the Sachs Kurve for Alice Powell, and the session would not restart. As a result, Chadwick scored the first pole position in W Series history, with a large gap back to Wohlwend and a similar margin to Moore in 3rd.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Race
The race started at 4:10pm CET on a drying track. Both Chadwick and Wohlwend both had good initial launches however Wohlwend – starting on the wet side of the circuit – encountered wheelspin whilst going up through the gears, dropping her to 5th by turn one. Both Kimiläinen and Sabré Cook stalled off the start, however Kimiläinen would not advance beyond the hairpin as Megan Gilkes suffered brake failure behind her and would smack into the front-right corner of the Finn, eliminating both on the spot and bringing out the Safety Car.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Race
Before the Safety Car was deployed however, Chadwick ran wide on a damp part of the track and handed the lead of the race to Alice Powell. On the restart, Chadwick got back past Powell whilst Marta García moved herself into 3rd place at the expense of Moore, and the top three began to pull away from the rest of the field.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Race
The battle for fourth, fifth and sixth between Visser, Moore and Wohlwend also began to pull away from Esmee Hawkey in 7th, who was struggling for pace and came under attack from Vittoria Piria and the hard-charging Miki Koyama. Koyama made an opportunistic move on Piria, with the Italian spinning at the hairpin and collecting a polystyrene advertising board. With two laps to go, Koyama put a forceful move on Hawkey, which sent the Brit down the order and out of the points.


2019 W Series Hockenheim round, Report, Race
Despite the fastest lap for the Japanese driver, she could not close the gap between herself and Wohlwend by the flag. Chadwick went on to win the first W Series race ahead of Powell and García on the podium, with a gap back to the group of Visser, Moore and Wohlwend with Koyama coming from 17th on the grid to finish 7th, with the points rounded out by Tasmin Pepper (who also made a comeback having started 16th), Gosia Rdest and Caitlin Wood.


2019 W Series Misano round
The 2019 W Series Misano round (also commercially referred to as #WRace3) was the third round of the 2019 W Series, and took place at the Misano World Circuit in Italy on 8 June 2019. The event was an undercard to the 2019 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters round at the same circuit.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Background
Following a first and a second placing in the opening two races, Jamie Chadwick leads the series on 43 points – six points ahead of Zolder race winner Beitske Visser. Having scored podiums in both of the races so far, Alice Powell sits third in the standings some 10 points behind fellow Briton Chadwick.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Background
Finnish driver Emma Kimiläinen will once again be ruled out of racing following her injury sustained in a crash at Hockenheim. Both reserve drivers Sarah Bovy and Vivien Keszthelyi will replace her.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Practice
Both practice sessions were held in hot, dry conditions. Free Practice One would be led by Beitske Visser, with Alice Powell just over a tenth behind her. Jessica Hawkins would be a surprise third with championship leader Chadwick down in 4th. The top 12 cars would be covered by less than a second, including reserve driver Vivien Keszthelyi.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Practice
Practice Two would be delayed by 50 minutes due to track maintenance. Japanese driver Miki Koyama would set the fastest time of the day with a 1:34.663, roughly 0.15sec ahead of Chadwick. Hawkins would continue the strong showing again in third, with local driver Vittoria Piria in fourth but only three-hundredths quicker than Visser – the top five covered by less than four-tenths of a second.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Qualifying
Qualifying began with Jamie Chadwick setting the pace, before quickly being deposed by Beitske Visser. Halfway through the session, Fabienne Wohlwend – one of the few drivers with circuit experience having won races at Misano in the Ferrari Challenge – skipped half a second clear. Caitlin Wood took too many liberties with the track limits soon after, breaking her suspension on a kerb. Sarah Bovy also had her fastest time deleted for not respecting track limits. Chadwick got within four-hundredths of the pole position, however Wohlwend had done enough to become only the second Liechtensteiner to sit on the pole position of an FIA-sanctioned open-wheel race, and first since Rikky von Opel at the Castle Combe round of the 1971 British Formula 3 Championship.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Race
Wohlwend made a terrible start from pole position, allowing Chadwick to move past on the run to turn one. Visser and Powell pulled alongside Wohlwend, however in Powell's attempts to push Wohlwend into giving up the place she ran out of road and made wheel-to-wheel contact with the Liechtensteiner, launching onto two wheels and coming to a rest in the gravel trap with broken front-left suspension, necessitating the deployment of the Safety Car.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Race
At the restart, Chadwick led Visser and Wohlwend. The top three started to pull away from the battle for fourth between Vittoria Piria and Miki Koyama. Wohlwend began to search for a way past Visser, however ran wide at the final corner and lost a second on the Dutchwoman, allowing the #95 to pressure Chadwick. Around half-way through the race, Koyama passed Piria at the exit of Turn 8 as the local driver mis-shifted.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Race
Further back, Sarah Moore formed a midfield train from eighth place back. Esmee Hawkey went wide exiting Turn 14 and dropped outside of the top ten, with Naomi Schiff the beneficiary. The joy would be short-lived for the German/Rwandan driver, who spun the car exiting Turn 5 and dropped down to last place. Sabré Cook managed to pass Moore for 8th on the penultimate lap.


2019 W Series Misano round, Report, Race
At the front, Wohlwend in third dropped back in an effort to conserve the tyres on the hot Misano circuit, before settling for the final spot on the podium. The championship leaders Visser and Chadwick pushed each other to the flag, and it would be the Briton who came out on top and with her second W Series victory. Visser claimed second with the fastest lap and Wohlwend scored a maiden podium in third. Koyama led home Piria in fourth, with Marta García sixth and Tasmin Pepper seventh in a quiet race for the pair. Cook finished ahead of the midfield battle in eighth, with Moore ninth and reserve driver Vivien Keszthelyi scoring the final point in tenth.


2019 W Series Misano round, Classification, Qualifying
Hawkey was given a 5-place grid penalty for causing a collision in the previous race.


2019 W Series Misano round, Classification, Race
Hawkins was given a 5-second time penalty for not adhering to track limits.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round
The 2019 W Series Nuremberg round (also commercially referred to as #WRace4) was the fourth round of the 2019 W Series, and took place at the Norisring in Germany on 6 July 2019. The event was an undercard to the 2019 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters round at the same circuit.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Background
Following her win in the previous round, Jamie Chadwick enters the round on 68 points – 13 ahead of second-placed Beitske Visser. Marta García sits third in the championship, 20 points behind Visser.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Background
Emma Kimiläinen will return to the series for the first time since practice at the Zolder round of the championship following an injury-induced break.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Practice
FP1 would see all twenty cars take to the track, although Sabré Cook's running would be delayed due to technical issues. The session was marred by a crash at the Grundig hairpin between Alice Powell and Esmee Hawkey, which would see Powell taken to hospital with wrist pain. Misano pole-sitter Fabienne Wohlwend would set the benchmark in the opening session, beating championship leader Jamie Chadwick by a tenth of a second.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Practice
Only nineteen cars would take to the track in FP2, as the damage sustained to Hawkeys' car could not be repaired in time. This session would also be red flagged, with Miki Koyama plucking the rear wing off her car at the Schöller S. Wohlwend held the fastest time for the majority of the session however a last minute flurry of times put Gosia Rdest at the top, ahead of Beitske Visser and Wohlwend. All drivers would be within a second of the fastest time, with both sessions led by drivers with circuit experience having raced in the Audi Sport TT Cup previously.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Practice
Following practice, W Series management announced that the field would remain set at 18 cars. It was subsequently announced that Vivien Keszthelyi would be promoted to main driver and Megan Gilkes would be demoted to reserve driver, with neither Gilkes nor Sarah Bovy allowed to compete.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Qualifying
Qualifying started earlier than normal at 8:50am local time. The session began in a non-descript fashion, before Jessica Hawkins set down a surprise yardstick with a low 51-second laptime at the halfway mark. With seven minutes remaining, Alice Powell would stop her car on the entry to the Schöller S with a gearbox failure, and having already sat out most of the session with technical issues would start from the back of the grid. Upon the resumption of the session, Keszthelyi would have a spin at the Dutzendteich Kehre, before Marta García knocked Hawkins off the top spot.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Qualifying
Hawkins would eventually fall to sixth and would be unable to set a better time as Shea Holbrook would suffer broken suspension at the Grundig Kehre with a minute remaining, bringing out the yellow flags and effectively ending the session. García would score her first pole position in the W Series, ahead of Chadwick, Wohlwend, Rdest and Visser – the top six cars covered by less than a quarter of a second.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Race
Marta García would get the jump following a very quick light sequence. Beitske Visser would make the best start from 5th on the grid to dive down the inside of Chadwick at turn one. Wohlwend would be caught on the outside of the opening hairpin, and as she slowed to avoid hitting the barrier Rdest bumped into the Liechtensteiner's rear-left wheel, dislodging the Pole's front wing. There were no incidents in the opening lap, however Sarah Moore would lock up into the Grundig Kehre on lap 4 and spin into Shea Holbrook, catching out Keszthelyi and the slow-starting Caitlin Wood. Moore would suffer from suspension failure the following lap and parked her car behind the barrier at Dutzendteich, whilst Holbrook was forced to pit with a puncture.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Race
As the race wore on, García built a healthy lead over Visser, with Chadwick in striking distance. Wohlwend began to drop off the back of Chadwick, however Rdest was keeping pace with Hawkins in the battle for fifth which disallowed the pair to make ground. Rdest was then be given a mechanical black flag for the broken wing, before both she and Holbrook were handed drive-through penalties for pit lane speeding - dropping both drivers a lap down. Hawkins' pace struggles were on full display as she locked up and ran wide, with Kimiläinen overtaking her for fifth and chased after the leaders.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Race
A quiet race would turn dramatic in the closing laps, as a battle for second between the championship contenders as well as a battle for fourth between Wohlwend and Kimiläinen would commence. With a handful of laps remaining, Hawkins slowed dramatically and pitted with a spark plug failure, with Alice Powell suffering a similar fate behind her having the fuel pump break after running as high as ninth from last on the grid.


2019 W Series Nuremberg round, Report, Race
García took a dominant win followed by Visser, who survived a last-lap lunge from Chadwick which would see the Briton finish third, with Wohlwend maintaining fourth ahead of Kimiläinen who was stuck in fifth as a lack of straight-line speed would see her unable to take advantage of the slipstream. Miki Koyama finished in sixth and twelve seconds behind the top five, followed by Cook in seventh and Tasmin Pepper in eighth. Hawkey would score her first points of the season in ninth and Naomi Schiff finished tenth having benefitted from a time penalty for Vittoria Piria.


2019 W Series Zolder round
The 2019 W Series Zolder round (also commercially referred to as #WRace2) was the second round of the 2019 W Series, and took place at Circuit Zolder in Belgium on 18 May 2019. The event was an undercard to the 2019 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters round at the same circuit.


2019 W Series Zolder round
Briton Jamie Chadwick took pole position but the race was won by Dutch driver Beitske Visser, who took an early lead and was able to hold on to it despite two safety car periods. Chadwick finished in second place, despite a late race charge by Alice Powell, who claimed the final podium place in third.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Background
In October 2018, it was announced that W Series parent series, the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, would be returning to Zolder for the first time since 2002 and, as a consequence, the W Series would also race there.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Background
Following her victory in the previous round, Jamie Chadwick entered the weekend with a 7-point lead over fellow Briton Alice Powell, with a further 3 point gap back to Spain's Marta García.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Practice
FP1 would be a dry session. Jamie Chadwick continued her run of form from the previous round at the Hockenheimring, finishing ahead of Emma Kimiläinen by just over half a second, followed closely by Beitske Visser with Jessica Hawkins showing marked improvements from the opening round to finish the session fourth. Vittoria Piria brought out the only red flag of the session with a spin into the gravel.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Practice
The second free practice session was held in mixed conditions. The session was delayed by 10 minutes, with the unpredictable Belgian weather bringing rain late into the session. All representative times were set early, with Visser outpacing Chadwick by three tenths of a second ahead of Marta García and Tasmin Pepper; the South African improving from 18th in the opening session. Most competitors ended their sessions with the onset of rain, however Gosia Rdest proved the exception in an attempt to gain wet-weather mileage.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Practice
As in Hockenheim, the series reserve drivers Sarah Bovy and Vivien Keszthelyi ran in free practice. They finished 12th and 10th respectively in the opening session, however technical issues would sideline Hungarian driver Keszthelyi in the second session, with Bovy ending FP2 in 15th. Later on Friday, local driver Bovy received the call-up to join the regular field in the race.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Qualifying
Ahead of qualifying, Kimiläinen was forced to pull out of the event after it was discovered that her accident with Megan Gilkes in the previous event had re-ignited a neck injury sustained in a Scandinavian Touring Car Championship accident three years prior. She was replaced with second reserve driver Keszthelyi, bringing the field back up to 19 cars.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Qualifying
Jamie Chadwick claimed her second pole position of the year by just over a tenth of a second from Beitske Visser, who had led the majority of the session.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Race
The race began under confusing circumstances. At the conclusion of the formation lap, Sarah Bovy's car pulled up a long way behind the grid with smoke pouring from the engine. The flag-waving marshal at the back of the field gave the all clear, but Bovy managed to restart her car and drive into her last-placed grid slot before the light sequence.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Race
Starting second, Beitske Visser got the jump on pole-sitter Chadwick, and the rest of the field left the grid cleanly – however Gosia Rdest jumped the start and dived into the mid-pack at turn one, forcing Fabienne Wohlwend and Tasmin Pepper onto the dirty outside line and dropping both to the back of the top ten. The safety car was deployed as the mechanical issues became terminal for Bovy, with the Belgian not making it off the grid in her home race.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Race
After a single lap behind the safety car, the race got underway again. Visser remained in the lead from Chadwick, however at the end of the lap Esmee Hawkey made an ambitious move on Rdest at the Bolderbergbocht for 7th, with the pair tangling wheels and crashing out of the race. In the lead up to the same corner, Sabré Cook bumped into the rear wheel of Vivien Keszthelyi, sending the Hungarian reserve driver into the barriers and also out of the race. The safety car was deployed once again, and Cook later received a drive-through penalty for her involvement in the incident.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Race
At the restart, Visser pulled away at the front, leaving Chadwick to defend from Alice Powell. Further down the field, Miki Koyama again proved her overtaking prowess by passing Caitlin Wood for 8th at the Kleine Chicane, having started 13th. Marta García meanwhile began to form a train, with her fourth place under attack from Sarah Moore, Pepper and Wohlwend. The Liechtensteiner attempted a move on Pepper at the Bolderbergbocht, however significantly locked-up her front-right wheel and fell into a no-mans-land between the South African and Koyama.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Report, Race
With a handful of laps remaining, Chadwick locked her rear wheels and ran wide at the Ickx Chicane, allowing Powell to close up. The Britons went into combat, spending most of laps 16 and 17 side by side with both holding the upper hand at various points. At the flag however, it was Visser who won her first open-wheel race since 2013 ahead Chadwick and Powell (the winner from Hockenheim victorious in the battle of the Brits), followed by the group of García, Moore, Pepper and Wohlwend, the latter having regained time in the closing laps. Koyama, having made good progress to 8th early failed to advance any further, with Vittoria Piria finishing in 9th and Naomi Schiff claiming the final point having benefitted from Caitlin Wood running through the gravel on the final lap.


2019 W Series Zolder round, Classification, Qualifying
Hawkins was given a three-place grid penalty for crossing the pit exit line.


2019 W-League Grand Final
The 2019 W-League Grand Final was the final match of the 2018–19 W-League season to decide the champions of women's soccer in Australia for the season.


2019 W-League Grand Final
The match was played between Sydney FC and Perth Glory, at Netstrata Jubilee Stadium, with Sydney FC emerging victorious 4–2.


2019 W-League Grand Final
This was referee Kate Jacewicz's ninth final out of the first eleven seasons of the W-League. The attendance of 6,127 was a record for W-League grand finals.


2019 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament was the postseason men's basketball tournament for the Western Athletic Conference during the 2018–19 season. All tournament games were played at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, from March 14–16, 2019. New Mexico State defeated Grand Canyon 89–57 in the championship to win the tournament, and received the conference's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Tournament. The win was New Mexico State's WAC leading ninth championship, and seventh in the last eight seasons.


2019 WAC Men's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
8 of the 9 teams in the WAC were eligible to compete in the conference tournament. California Baptist is ineligible due to their transition from Division II to Division I. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.


2019 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament
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2019 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament
The 2019 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament was the 12th edition of the tournament. It determined the Western Athletic Conference's automatic berth into the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. The tournament began on November 13 and concluded on November 17.


2019 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament
Grand Canyon were the defending champions, beating Seattle U last year. The Seattle U Redhawks won the title, earning their fourth ever WAC Championship, and their fourth ever appearance into the NCAA Tournament. Seattle's sophomore goalkeeper, Akili Kasim, won the Tournament MVP honors.


2019 WAC Men's Soccer Tournament, Background
Grand Canyon Antelopes, who won the tournament after a 1–0 victory over San Jose State in the final. This was the first WAC men's soccer title for Grand Canyon, and the first for coach Schellas Hyndman.


2019 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament
The 2019 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament was a postseason tournament was held on March 13–16, 2019, at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada. New Mexico State won the conference tournament championship game over Texas–Rio Grande Valley, in double-overtime, 76–73 to earn an automatic trip to the NCAA Women's Tournament.


2019 WAC Women's Basketball Tournament, Seeds
The teams were seeded based on record, with California Baptist not eligible to play due to the transition rules.


2019 WAC Women's Soccer Tournament
The 2019 Western Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Tournament was the postseason women's soccer tournament for the Western Athletic Conference held from November 6 to November 10, 2019. The five match tournament took place at Championship Field in Seattle, Washington on the campus of Seattle University. The six-team single-elimination tournament consisted of three rounds based on seeding from regular season conference play. The defending champions were the Seattle Redhawks, who successfully defended their title, defeating Utah Valley 2–1 in the final. This was the fifth WAC women's soccer tournament championship for the Seattle women's soccer program, all of which have come under head coach Julie Woodward.


2019 WAFF Championship
The 2019 West Asian Football Federation Championship, also called AsiaCell WAFF Championship Iraq 2019 due to sponsorship by AsiaCell, was the 9th edition of the WAFF Championship, an international tournament for member nations of the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF). It was hosted in Iraq for the first time, in the cities of Karbala and Erbil.


2019 WAFF Championship
The tournament was meant to be held from 8 to 17 December 2017 in Amman, Jordan, but was postponed to a later date, and subsequently moved to Iraq on 21 May 2018. It was then expected to be held in November 2018, but yet again postponed to July–August 2019.


2019 WAFF Championship
All WAFF members, excluding title holders Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, participated in the competition. Of the nine teams, seven had also appeared in the previous tournament in 2014. A total of 17 matches were played in two venues across two cities. The final took place on 14 August at the Karbala Sports City in Karbala, between hosts Iraq and Bahrain. Bahrain won the match 1–0 to claim their first WAFF Championship title, marking the second consecutive title won by a Gulf team.


2019 WAFF Championship, Teams, Participants
A total of nine teams participated in the competition. All WAFF members, other than Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, agreed to take part in the tournament.


2019 WAFF Championship, Teams, Draw
The teams were distributed on 26 June 2019 in Erbil according to their requests. The nine teams were drawn into two groups: Group A with 5 teams and Group B with 4. While the draw was intended to be held between 18 and 20 July 2019, some teams requested the organizing committee to play in Erbil, therefore placing them in Group B, with the rest of the teams being placed in Group A to play in Karbala. The two group winners directly advanced to the final.


2019 WAFF Championship, Teams, Draw
The draw for the group fixtures was held on 20 July 2019 at the Iraq Football Association headquarters in Baghdad.


2019 WAFF Championship, Teams, Squads
Each team had to register a squad of 23 players, three of whom must be goalkeepers.


2019 WAFF Championship, Group stage
The WAFF announced the tournament schedule on 20 July 2019. The group winners advance to the final.


2019 WAFF Championship, Statistics, Goalscorers
There have been 34 goals scored in 17 matches, for an average of 2 goals per match.


2019 WAFF Championship, Statistics, Final ranking
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2019 WAFF Championship, Broadcasting rights
The WAFF sold the broadcasting rights for the 2019 WAFF Championship to the following broadcasters.


2019 WAFF Championship squads
The 2019 WAFF Championship was an international football tournament held in Iraq from 30 July to 14 August 2019. The nine national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.


2019 WAFF Championship squads
The age listed for each player is on 30 July 2019, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Group A, Iraq
Iraq's 44-man preliminary squad was announced on 24 June 2019. The squad was reduced to 36 players on 12 July, then to 33 players on 20 July. The final squad was announced on 22 July.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Group A, Syria
Syria's 26-man preliminary squad was announced on 23 July 2019. The final squad was announced on 29 July. Mohammed Al Wakid withdrew injured and was replaced by Ahmad Al Douni on 1 August.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Group A, Yemen
Yemen's 30-man preliminary squad was announced on 11 July 2019. The final squad was announced on 27 July.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Group A, Lebanon
Lebanon's 42-man preliminary squad was announced on 28 June 2019. The final squad was announced on 24 July. Ali Sabeh withdrew injured and was replaced by Ali Daher on 31 July.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Group B, Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia's 24-man preliminary squad was announced on 30 July 2019. The final squad was announced on 2 August.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Group B, Bahrain
Bahrain's 28-man preliminary squad was announced on 11 July 2019. The final squad was announced on 2 August.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Group B, Jordan
Jordan's 26-man preliminary squad was announced on 17 July 2019. The final squad was announced on 30 July.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Statistics, Age
Of the seven teenagers in the competition, Yemen's Ahmed Maher was the youngest at 17 years, 187 days as of the first day of the tournament, and Yemen's Salem Al-Harsh was the youngest goalkeeper. At 36 years, 51 days, Syria's Firas Al-Khatib was the oldest player and oldest captain, and Jordan's Moataz Yaseen was the oldest goalkeeper.


2019 WAFF Championship squads, Statistics, Player representation by league system
League systems with the country's national team present are listed. In all, WAFF Championship squad members played for clubs in 14 countries.


2019 WAFF U-15 Championship
2019 WAFF U-15 Championship was the seventh edition of the WAFF U-16 Championship, the international youth football championship organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the men's under-15 national teams of West Asia. It was held in Zarqa, Jordan from 1 July to 11 July 2019. The draw of the competition was held on 9 June 2019.


2019 WAFF U-15 Championship
Saudi Arabia won the championship title for the first time in its history after winning all its matches.


2019 WAFF U-15 Championship, Format
The groups winners of the three groups in the first round played in a single round-robin format, in order to determine the top three in the tournament. The second-placed teams played in the same way on the 4–6 positions, while the third-placed teams in their groups played on the 7–9 positions.


2019 WAFF U-15 Championship, Participating nations
All West Asian Federation teams entered the competition except Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.


2019 WAFF U-18 Championship
2019 WAFF U-18 Championship was the first edition of the WAFF U-18 Championship. A WAFF youth football championship organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) for the men's under-18 national teams of West Asia. It was held in Ramallah, Palestine from 22 August to 30 August 2019.


2019 WAFF U-18 Championship, Format
The groups winner and the second-placed team of the two groups in the first round played in a single round-robin format, qualified for the semi-finals.


2019 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship
The 2019 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship was the 2nd edition of the WAFF U-18 Girls Championship, the international women's football youth championship of Western Asia organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF). It was held in Bahrain from 29 December 2019 to 6 January 2020. Lebanon won their first title, after beating hosts Bahrain 3–0 in the final.


2019 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship, Statistics, Final ranking
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws.


2019 WAFF U-18 Girls Championship, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 50 goals scored in 14 matches, for an average of 3.57 goals per match.


2019 WAFF Women's Championship
The 2019 West Asian Football Federation Women's Championship was the 6th edition of the WAFF Women's Championship, the international women's football championship of Western Asia organised by the West Asian Football Federation (WAFF). It was held in Bahrain from 7 January to 15 January 2019. The tournament was won by Jordan for the fourth time, and Bahrain became the first host nation to not win the WAFF Women's Championship.


2019 WAFF Women's Championship, Teams, Squads
Each team must register a squad of 23 players, minimum three of whom must be goalkeepers.


2019 WAFF Women's Championship, Statistics, Goalscorers
There were 30 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 3 goals per match.


2019 WAFF Women's Championship squads
The 2019 WAFF Women's Championship was an international women's football tournament held in Bahrain from 7 to 15 January 2019. The five national teams involved in the tournament were required to register a squad of 23 players, including three goalkeepers. Only players in these squads were eligible to take part in the tournament.


2019 WAFF Women's Championship squads
The age listed for each player is on 7 January 2019, the first day of the tournament. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player do not include any matches played after the start of tournament. The club listed is the club for which the player last played a competitive match prior to the tournament. The nationality for each club reflects the national association (not the league) to which the club is affiliated. A flag is included for coaches who are of a different nationality than their own national team.


2019 WAFF Women's Clubs Championship
The 2019 WAFF Women's Clubs Championship was the inaugural WAFF Women's Clubs Championship, the West Asian women's club football championship organised by the WAFF. It took place in Aqaba, Jordan, from 3 to 11 October 2019 as a single round-robin.


2019 WAFF Women's Clubs Championship, Teams
Five teams from five nations participated in the inaugural competition.


2019 WAFF Women's Clubs Championship, Goalscorers
There have been 58 goals scored in 10 matches, for an average of 5.8 goals per match.


2019 WAFL Women's season
The 2019 WAFL Women's season was the inaugural season of the WAFL Women's (WAFLW). The season commenced on 5 May and concluded with the Grand Final on 14 September 2019. The competition was contested by five clubs, all of whom were affiliated with men's clubs from the West Australian Football League (WAFL).


2019 WAFL season
The 2019 WAFL season (officially the 2019 Optus WAFL Premiership Season) was the 135th season of the various incarnations of the West Australian Football League (WAFL). The season commenced on 6 April and concluded on 22 September 2019. Subiaco defeated South Fremantle in the Grand Final by 96 points, the club's fourth premiership in six years and fifteenth overall. The 2019 season saw the introduction of a 10th team into the league, the West Coast Eagles reserves, after their alignment with East Perth was terminated in July 2018.


2019 WAFU Cup of Nations
The 2019 WAFU Cup of Nations is the sixth edition of the WAFU Nations Cup, an association football tournament that is affiliated with the West African Football Union (WAFU). It was taking place between September 28 to October 13, 2019 in Thiès, Senegal. The tournament was sponsored by most notably ESPN and Royal Air Morac.


2019 WAFU Cup of Nations
All sixteen members of WAFU competed in the competition in a knockout-style format with the losers of the first round playing in a plate-competition.


2019 WAFU Cup of Nations
Senegal won the tournament after beating defending champions Ghana in the final via a penalty shootout.


2019 WAFU Cup of Nations, Sponsorship
The competition was sponsored by ESPN with Royal Air Maroc being the exclusive airline sponsor. The tournament was telecast on all ESPN platforms.


2019 WAFU Cup of Nations, Draw
The draw took place on 29 May 2019 at Radisson Blu Sea Plaza Hotel in Dakar.


2019 WAFU Cup of Nations, Matches
The match winners will qualify for the cup competition, the losing teams will qualify for the plate competition.


2019 WAFU Cup of Nations, Champion, Individual awards
The following awards were given at the conclusion of the tournament.


2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament
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2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament
The 2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament was the second edition of the international U-20 men's football event for teams under the West African Football Union. The competition was hosted by Guinea in November to December 2019 in two match venues.


2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament
Host Guinea, Mauritania, Senegal and Sierra Leone make up Group A whilst Liberia, Mali and Gambia complete Group B (as Guinea-Bissau withdrew).


2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament
Matches were held at Stade du 28 Septembre and the Nongo Stadium, both in Conakry, Guinea.


2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament, Player eligibility
Players born 1 January 1999 or later are eligible to participate in the competition.


2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament, Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals.


2019 WAFU U-20 Tournament, Group stage
Teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss), and if tied on points, the following tie-breaking criteria are applied, in the order given, to determine the rankings.


2019 WAFU Zone B Women's Cup
The 2019 WAFU Zone B Women's Cup was the second edition of the international women's football event for teams from Zone B of the West African Football Union (WAFU). The competition was hosted by Ivory Coast, and Ghana were the defending champions. Nigeria defeated Ivory Coast through penalties in the final to win their first trophy in the tournament. Uchenna Kanu topped the scorers chart with ten goals.


2019 WAFU Zone B Women's Cup, Draw
The draws were made on April 16, 2019 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, with May 8 set for the opening game. The tournament was also highlighted as preparation for Football at the Summer Olympics qualifiers for some of the teams. Robert Champroux Stadium and Stade du Parc des Sports were retained as venues.


2019 WAFU Zone B Women's Cup, Draw
Nigeria's manager, Thomas Dennerby released his 20-man squad for the tournament on May 6.


2019 WBSC Premier12
The 2019 WBSC Premier12 was an international baseball championship featuring the 12 highest-ranked national teams in the world, held by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC). It was the second WBSC Premier12 event. The championship was held from November 2 to 17, 2019, in Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan.


2019 WBSC Premier12
The tournament served as a qualifier for baseball at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Two quota spots were allocated, with Team Mexico as the top finisher from the Americas earning one spot, and Team South Korea as the top-finishing team from the Asia/Oceania region (excluding Team Japan, which already qualified as host) earning the other.


2019 WBSC Premier12
Japan defeated South Korea in the championship game, and the bronze medal game was won by Mexico over Team USA.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Teams
The 12 highest-ranked national teams qualified to participate in the 2019 WBSC Premier 12, based on the then-most-recent WBSC World Rankings, which were as of December 17, 2018.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Format, Opening Round
The tournament began with three groups of four teams each playing in the 12-team Opening Round. Each team played three games, in a round robin format against the other three teams in its group.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Format, Super Round
The top two teams from each group then advanced to the six-team Super Round, which was hosted at ZOZO Marine Stadium and the Tokyo Dome in Japan.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Format, Super Round
In the Super Round, the top two teams that advanced from each of the three groups competed in a round robin format against the top two teams that advanced from the other two groups, for a total of four games played per team.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Format, Finals
Following the conclusion of the Super Round, four teams advanced to the Finals. The four teams were selected based on a combination of the results of the Opening Round game contested between the two teams in the same group that qualified for the Super Round (1 game), plus the teams' results in the Super Round (4 games).


2019 WBSC Premier12, Format, Finals
The 3rd- and 4th-place teams competed in a Bronze Medal Game, while the 1st- and 2nd-place teams faced each other in the Championship Final at the Tokyo Dome.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Awards
Following the conclusion of the tournament, the WBSC announced the Premier12 All-World Team. WBSC also announced the individual awards winners.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Prize money
The WBSC gave $5.2 million in prize money to participants, distributed as follows, with a minimum of half of a team's prize money to be distributed equally among its players:


2019 WBSC Premier12, Controversies
The super-round game between South Korea and the United States played on November 11, which South Korea won 5–1, became a topic of debate due to an alleged misjudgment by an umpire, Tetsuya Shibata, against South Korea in the third inning. Baserunner Kim Ha-seong slid back to home plate before catcher Eric Kratz in the eyes of some was able to tag him out, but Tetsuya ruled it as an out instead. Team Korea's coach, Kim Kyung-moon immediately requested a VAR check, but was refused.


2019 WBSC Premier12, Controversies
Slowed-down television footage was available online, and some criticized the call claiming it was wrong and that South Korea lost a run due to the call. The Korea Baseball Organization held a meeting after the match with the tournament's technical directors and filed an appeal, additionally stating that Kratz physically obstructed Kim's path to home plate in violation of WBSC playing regulations. WBSC responded by saying that they respected Team Korea's perspective and would seek to make improvements in the future. The Japanese media initially kept this incident quiet on the news, and many ridiculed the controversy in Japan.


2019 WBSC Premier12 rosters
The following is a list of squads for each nation competing at the 2019 WBSC Premier12.


2019 WCBA Playoffs
The 2019 WCBA Playoffs is the postseason tournament of the 2018–19 season. It began on 13 February 2019.


2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament
The 2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament was played between March 8 and March 23, 2019 on campus locations. By winning the tournament, Minnesota State was awarded the Broadmoor Trophy and received the WCHA's automatic bid to the 2019 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.


2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The first two rounds of the postseason tournament featured a best-of-three games format. The top eight conference teams participated in the tournament. Teams were seeded No. 1 through No. 8 according to their final conference standings, with a tiebreaker system used to seed teams with an identical number of points accumulated. The higher seeded teams each earned home ice and host one of the lower seeded teams. (teams will NOT be re-seeded with each proceeding round).


2019 WCHA Men's Ice Hockey Tournament, Format
The final was a single game held at the campus site of the highest remaining seed.


2019 WCT Arctic Cup
The 2019 WCT Arctic Cup was held May 23 to 26 at the Taimyr Ice Arena in Dudinka, Russia. It was the final event of the 2018–19 curling season. In the final, Scottish Team Muirhead defeated Russian Team Kovaleva 5–4 to claim the title. Canadian Team Einarson defeated Team Sidorova from Russia to win the 3rd place medal. The total purse for the event was $US 50,000.


2019 WCT Arctic Cup, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Krasnoyarsk Standard Time (UTC+07:00).


2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup
The 2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup was held from September 29 to October 3 in Uiseong-eup, Uiseong County, South Korea. The total purse for the event was ₩ 55,000,000 on both the men's and women's sides. The event had a mix of teams from Canada, Italy, Norway, Russia, Switzerland, United States, and the host South Korea.


2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup
In the Men's event, Canada's Mike McEwen won their first event of the season by defeating Olympic gold medalist John Shuster from the United States 7–4 in the final. Canada's Scott McDonald won the bronze medal with a 10–4 victory over South Korea's Kim Soo-hyuk.


2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup
In the Women's event, USA's Nina Roth with Tabitha Peterson throwing skip rocks defeated Olympic silver medalists Kim Kyeong-ae who took over skipping duties for Kim Eun-jung 5–4 in an extra end. Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni took the bronze medal by defeating South Korea's Kim Min-ji 6–4.


2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup, Men, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Korean Standard Time (UTC+09:00).


2019 WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup, Women, Round Robin Results
All draw times are listed in Korean Standard Time (UTC+09:00).


2019 WDF World Cup
The 2019 WDF World Cup will be the 19th edition of the WDF World Cup darts tournament, organised by the World Darts Federation. It will be held in Cluj-Napoca, Romania from October 7 to 12.


2019 WDF World Cup, Entered teams
27 countries/associations entered a team in the event, which is eleven less than 2011. Not all teams took part in all events (for example, Switzerland did not participate in the youth events).


2019 WDF World Cup, Entered teams
Guyana and  Uganda originally entered, but both pulled out due to visa issues


2019 WDF World Cup, Men's singles
Darren Herewini from New Zealand became the 2019 WDF World Cup champion.


2019 WDF World Cup, Men's singles
Machin also plays a strong tournament and beats Daniel Day, Johan Engström and Nick Kenny, among others. This year again many different nationalities among the last sixteen, including three Swedes. Peter Machin is the third Australian to reach the final of the men's WDF World Cup singles, but after Peter Hinkley in 1997 and Raymond Smith in 2017, he too must settle for silver.


2019 WFG Tankard
The 2019 WFG Tankard (French: Tankard WFG 2019) the Quebec men's provincial curling championship was held from January 13 to 20 at the Arèna de Grand-Mère in Grand-Mère, Quebec. The winning Martin Crête team represented Quebec at the 2019 Tim Hortons Brier in Brandon, Manitoba.


2019 WFG Tankard
The event was held in conjunction with the 2019 Quebec Scotties Tournament of Hearts, Quebec's provincial women's curling championship.


2019 WFG Tankard
The Martin Crête skipped rink (which had been skipped by 11-time provincial champion Jean-Michel Ménard in 2018 before he retired) won the event, defeating the 2018 champion Mike Fournier rink in the final.


2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play
The 2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play was the 21st WGC Match Play, played March 27–31 at Austin Country Club in Austin, Texas. It was the second of four World Golf Championships in 2019.


2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play
Kevin Kisner, runner-up in 2018, defeated 2013 champion Matt Kuchar in the final, 3 & 2.


2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Field
The field consisted of the top 64 players available from the Official World Golf Ranking on March 17. However, the seedings were based on the World Rankings on March 24.


2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Field
Rickie Fowler (ranked 8th on March 17, personal reasons) and Adam Scott (29th, personal reasons) did not compete, allowing entry for Satoshi Kodaira (65th) and Luke List (66th).


2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Format
The first phase of the tournament involves players being split into 16 groups of four players. Each group is decided by a round-robin format played over Wednesday to Friday, with the sixteen group winners advancing to the knock out phase. The group winner is decided by awarding 1 point for a win, and ½ point for a halved match. If two or more players are tied on points at the conclusion of the group phase, sudden death stroke play playoff is played between tied players.


2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Format
The group winners play the round of sixteen on Saturday morning, and the quarterfinal on Saturday afternoon. The semifinals are played on Sunday morning, and the final and third place playoff are played on Sunday afternoon. In total, the winner will play seven rounds of golf.


2019 WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play, Results, Pool play
Players were divided into 16 groups of four players and play round-robin matches Wednesday to Friday.


2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
The 2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational was a professional golf tournament held July 25–28 at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. It was the 21st WGC Invitational tournament, and the third of the World Golf Championships events in 2019. It was the first time the event had been held in Tennessee, having previously been based at Firestone Country Club in Ohio.


2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational
World number one, Brooks Koepka, completed a three-stroke victory over Webb Simpson to win his first World Golf Championship event. Koepka had begun the final day one shot behind Rory McIlroy, who led the field. With the win, Koepka earned more PGA Tour regular season FedEx Cup points than any other player and won first-place prize of $2 million in the Wyndham Rewards Top 10.


2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Venue, Course layout
TPC Southwind was designed by Ron Prichard, in consultation with tour pros Hubert Green and Fuzzy Zoeller. TPC Southwind opened thirty-two years ago in 1988, and is a member of the Tournament Players Club network operated by the PGA Tour.


2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Field
The field consisted of players drawn primarily from the Official World Golf Ranking and the winners of the worldwide tournaments with the strongest fields.


2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Field
Paul Casey (2,3,4), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4), Tony Finau (2,3), Tommy Fleetwood (2,3), Sergio García (2,3), Tyrrell Hatton (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3,4), Brooks Koepka (2,3,4), Rory McIlroy (2,3,4), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Alex Norén (2,3), Thorbjørn Olesen, Ian Poulter (2,3), Jon Rahm (2,3,4), Patrick Reed (2,3), Justin Rose (2,3,4), Webb Simpson (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2,3), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Bubba Watson (2,3)


2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Field
Keegan Bradley (3,4), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (3), Patrick Cantlay (3,4), Jason Day (3), Matthew Fitzpatrick (3), Jim Furyk (3), Justin Harding, Billy Horschel (3), Kevin Kisner (3,4), Matt Kuchar (3,4), Marc Leishman (3,4), Li Haotong (3), Hideki Matsuyama (3), Kevin Na (3,4), Louis Oosthuizen (3), Pan Cheng-tsung (3,4), Eddie Pepperell (3,4), Andrew Putnam (3), Chez Reavie (3,4), Xander Schauffele (3,4), Adam Scott (3), Cameron Smith (3,5), Brandt Snedeker (3,4), Matt Wallace (3), Gary Woodland (3,4)


2019 WGC-FedEx St. Jude Invitational, Field
Corey Conners, J. B. Holmes, Max Homa, Kodai Ichihara, Kang Sung-hoon, Nate Lashley, Adam Long, Keith Mitchell, Aaron Rai, Kevin Tway, Danny Willett, Matthew Wolff


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions
The 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions was a golf tournament played from 31 October – 3 November 2019 at the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China. It was the eleventh WGC-HSBC Champions tournament, and the fourth of four World Golf Championships events held in the 2019 calendar year.


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions
Rory McIlroy beat defending champion Xander Schauffele at the first hole of a sudden-death playoff after making a birdie 4 to Schauffele's par 5. It is his first WGC-HSBC Champions victory, and third World Golf Championship win overall, having already won the WGC Match Play and WGC Invitational.


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
The following is a list of players who qualified for the 2019 WGC-HSBC Champions. The criteria is towards the leaders in points lists rather than tournament winners. Players who qualified from multiple categories are listed in the first category in which they are eligible with the other qualifying categories in parentheses next to the player's name.


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
An Byeong-hun, Abraham Ancer (4), Keegan Bradley, Rafa Cabrera-Bello (5), Paul Casey (4,5), Tony Finau (4,5), Matthew Fitzpatrick (5), Tommy Fleetwood (4,5), Sergio García (5), Adam Hadwin, Tyrrell Hatton, Billy Horschel, Im Sung-jae (4), Hideki Matsuyama (4), Phil Mickelson, Francesco Molinari (5), Louis Oosthuizen (4,5), Ian Poulter (5), Andrew Putnam, Chez Reavie (4), Patrick Reed (4), Justin Rose (4,5), Adam Scott (4), Jordan Spieth, Henrik Stenson, Matt Wallace (5), Bubba Watson, Bernd Wiesberger (5), Danny Willett (5)


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Corey Conners, Lucas Glover, Charles Howell III, Jason Kokrak, Kevin Tway


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Christiaan Bezuidenhout, Jorge Campillo, Justin Harding (9), Benjamin Hébert, Kurt Kitayama, Romain Langasque, Li Haotong, Mike Lorenzo-Vera, Joost Luiten, Robert MacIntyre, Andrea Pavan, Victor Perez, Richard Sterne, Erik van Rooyen, Paul Waring


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions, Field
Bai Zhengkai, Dou Zecheng, Liang Wenchong, Wu Ashun, Yuan Yechun, Zhang Xinjun


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions, Round summaries, First round
Li Haotong took a one-shot lead over Victor Perez by shooting an 8-under-par 64. Defending champion Xander Schauffele was two strokes back in a tied for third.


2019 WGC-HSBC Champions, Round summaries, Second round
Matthew Fitzpatrick shot a 5-under-par 67 to take a one shot lead over Rory McIlroy. First round leader Li Haotong shot 72 to drop into a tied for sixth place. Defending champion Xander Schauffele remained in a tied for third place with a second round 69.


2019 WGC-Mexico Championship
The 2019 WGC-Mexico Championship was a golf tournament played February 21–24 at Club de Golf Chapultepec in Naucalpan, Mexico, just west of Mexico City. It was the 20th time the WGC Championship was played, and the first of the World Golf Championships events to be staged in 2019. The approximate elevation of the course's clubhouse is 2,400 meters (7,870 ft) above sea level.


2019 WGC-Mexico Championship
Dustin Johnson eased to a 5 stroke victory ahead of Rory McIlroy to win his third WGC Championship (second in Mexico), and sixth World Golf Championship overall. Although the victory did not immediately return Johnson to world number one, he and the current number one (Justin Rose) were not competing in the following week, which meant he was guaranteed to return to top spot a week later.


2019 WGC-Mexico Championship, Field
The field consisted of players from the top of the Official World Golf Ranking and the money lists/Orders of Merit from the six main professional golf tours. Each player is classified according to the first category in which he qualified, but other categories are shown in parentheses.


2019 WGC-Mexico Championship, Field
Kiradech Aphibarnrat (2,5), Lucas Bjerregaard (5), Keegan Bradley (2,3), Rafa Cabrera-Bello (2), Patrick Cantlay (2,3), Paul Casey (2,3), Bryson DeChambeau (2,3,4,6), Tony Finau (2,3), Matthew Fitzpatrick (2), Tommy Fleetwood (2,3,5), Rickie Fowler (2,3), Sergio García (2,5), Branden Grace (2), Emiliano Grillo, Tyrrell Hatton (2,5), Billy Horschel (2,3), Dustin Johnson (2,3), Kevin Kisner (2), Brooks Koepka (2,3), Matt Kuchar (2,4), Marc Leishman (2,3,4), Li Haotong (2,5,6), Shane Lowry (2,6), Hideki Matsuyama (2,3), Rory McIlroy (2,3,5), Phil Mickelson (2,3,4), Francesco Molinari (2,3,5), Alex Norén (2,5), Thorbjørn Olesen (2,5), Louis Oosthuizen (2,6), Eddie Pepperell (2,5), Ian Poulter (2,6), Jon Rahm (2,3,5), Chez Reavie (2), Patrick Reed (2,3,5), Xander Schauffele (2,3,4,5), Webb Simpson (2,3), Cameron Smith (2,3), Jordan Spieth (2), Kyle Stanley (2,3), Henrik Stenson (2), Justin Thomas (2,3,4), Matt Wallace (2,5,6), Bubba Watson (2,3), Gary Woodland (2,3,4), Tiger Woods (2,3)


2019 WGC-Mexico Championship, Round summaries, First round
Rory McIlroy shot an 8-under-par 63 to take a one-shot lead over Dustin Johnson.


2019 WK League
The 2019 WK League was the eleventh season of the WK League, the top division of women's football in South Korea. The regular season began on 15 April and ended on 31 October 2019.


2019 WK League
Incheon Hyundai Steel Red Angels were the Champions for the seventh successive season.


2019 WK League, Foreign players
The total number of foreign players was restricted to three per club, including a slot for a player from the Asian Football Confederation countries.


2019 WK League, Playoff and championship
The playoff was played as a single-elimination match, while the Championship Final was played over two legs.


2019 WMF World Cup
The 2019 World Minifootball Federation World Cup was the third edition of the WMF World Cup, the world championship for men's national minifootball teams organized by the World Minifootball Federation. The tournament was contested in Perth, Western Australia, from 1 to 11 October 2019.


2019 WMF World Cup, Venue
All the matches of 2019 WMF World Cup are played in the Perth Minifoot Stadium in Langley Park in Perth.


2019 WMF World Cup, Teams and draw, Qualified Teams
Unlike in the 2017 WMF World Cup, 32 teams from 5 continents are qualified for the final tournament:


2019 WMF World Cup, Teams and draw, Draw
On 7 June 2019, in Perth, the pools were drawn for 8 groups of 32 teams.


2019 WMF World Cup, Teams and draw, Draw
Australia (Host country) Brazil Czech Republic Hungary Mexico Romania Portugal Tunisia


2019 WMF World Cup, Teams and draw, Draw
Costa Rica Ghana Moldova Nigeria Saudi Arabia Singapore Thailand South Africa


2019 WNBA All-Star Game
The 2019 WNBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on July 27, 2019. The Las Vegas Aces hosted the WNBA All-Star Game for the first time.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Selection
On June 12, the WNBA announced that 2019 would similar roster selection process to the 2018 WNBA All-Star Game. Fans, WNBA players, head coaches, sports writers, and broadcasters would all be able to vote for All Stars. All groups could fill out a ballot of four guards and six front court players. Players and coaches could not vote for members of their own team. Voting began on June 14, 2019, at 2 PM EDT and ended on July 9, 2019, at 2 PM EDT.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Selection
Players were not allowed to vote for their own teammates. The top 10 players receiving votes based on this weighting would be selected to the All-Star Game. These ten players would be deemed the starters. The starters were revealed on July 11, 2019. After the announcement of the starters, the WNBA's head coaches selected the 12 reserves. Coaches voted for three guards, five frontcourt players, and four players at either position regardless of conference. They could not vote for their own players. The reserves were announced on Monday, July 15.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Selection
The top two vote-getters were captains of the two All-Star teams and selected their teams from the pool of 8 remaining starters and the 12 reserves. On July 18, it was announced that the selection process would be televised on ESPN2. The selection show aired on July 23, at 9:30 PM ET, prior to the Seattle Storm vs. Las Vegas Aces game that was also televised on ESPN2.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Head coaches
The head coaches of the two teams will be the head coaches from the two WNBA teams with the best records following games on July 12. On July 11, it was determined that Bill Laimbeer of the Las Vegas Aces and Mike Thibault of the Washington Mystics would be the two All-Star Head Coaches, as their teams had the best records in the WNBA. Laimbeer would coach Team Delle Donne, as the Aces had the best record and Delle Donne had the most All-Star votes. That left Thibault to coach Team Wilson. For both coaches, this was their third time coaching in an All-Star Game.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, All-Star Pool
The players for the All-Star Game were selected by the voting process described above. The starters were announced on July 11, 2019, with Elena Delle Donne and A'ja Wilson leading the vote meaning they would be captains of the two All-Star teams. The player line-up was completed when the reserves were announced on July 15, 2019. On July 22, 2019, the league announced that Napheesa Collier was selected as a replacement player for the injured A'ja Wilson.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, All-Star Selections per team
The Las Vegas Aces, Chicago Sky, and Minnesota Lynx led the league with three players selected to the All-Star team. No players were selected from the Atlanta Dream or the Dallas Wings.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Rosters, Final rosters
Rosters as of July 16, 2019. A'ja Wilson was unable to play due to injury. Napheesa Collier was selected as Wilson's replacement. Allie Quigley was selected to start in place of Wilson.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Three-Point Contest & Skills Challenge
On June 17, 2019, it was announced that there would be a Three-Point Contest and Skills challenge on July 25, the night before the All-Star game. This marked the first time these two events had been held since 2006.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Three-Point Contest & Skills Challenge, Rules
The Three-Point Contest is a two-round, timed competition in which five shooting locations are positioned around the three-point arc. Four racks contain four WNBA balls (each worth one point) and one “money” ball (worth two points). The fifth station is a special “all money ball” rack, which each participant can place at any of the five locations. Every ball on this rack is worth two points. The players have one minute to shoot as many of the 25 balls as they can. The two competitors with the highest scores in the first round advance to the championship round.


2019 WNBA All-Star Game, Three-Point Contest & Skills Challenge, Rules
The Skills Challenge will be a three-round, obstacle-course competition that tests dribbling, passing, agility and three-point shooting skills. The event will showcase a head-to-head, bracket-style tournament format.


2019 WNBA Finals
The 2019 WNBA Finals, officially WNBA Finals 2019 presented by YouTube TV for sponsorship reasons, was the best-of-five championship series for the 2019 season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Finals featured the top seeded Washington Mystics facing off against the second seed Connecticut Sun.


2019 WNBA Finals
The Washington Mystics defeated the Connecticut Sun through five turbulent games, with the Mystics winning the odd-numbered games and the Sun emerging victorious through the even-numbered games, exploiting a temporary absence of Elena Delle Donne and drawing upon unrelenting resolve to keep the series going, to make their bid for a championship that ultimately failed after the Mystics resurged in Game 5's final quarter. This was the first-ever Finals win for the Washington Mystics, as well as the Connecticut Sun's third Finals appearance.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary
This finals was the third time in the four years since the WNBA switched playoff formats in 2016 that two teams from the same conference met in the WNBA Finals. In 2016 and 2017, two teams from the Western Conference met. This would be the first time two teams from the Eastern Conference met in the Finals. This Finals is also the third time that the top two seeds have made it to the finals since the WNBA switched playoff formats in 2016. The lone non-top two seed to make the finals was the third seeded Washington Mystics in 2018.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary
The Mystic's home court advantage figured to play a critical role in these finals. The Mystics had a 14–3 home record during the regular season and the Connecticut Sun had a 15–2 regular season home record. However, the Mystics had a regular season away record advantage 12–5 vs. 8–9. The Sun won the regular season series 2–1, with the home team winning each game.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 1
Ariel Atkins turned around her recent poor form to lead the Mystics to a win in Game 1 of the Finals. Atkins was 5–21 during the Mystic's semifinal series, but scored 21 points in Game 1 of the Finals on 6–7 shooting. Additionally, Elena Delle Donne and Emma Meesseman played for the Mystics. This was a change from the regular season series, where both players did not play. Delle Donne in particular made her presence felt, leading the Mystics with twenty-two points and ten rebounds. The Sun got a big performance from Courtney Williams, who scored a game high twenty-six points. However, the Sun's bench contributed only eight total points, while the Mystic's bench scored sixteen.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 2
Elena Delle Donne only played 3:20 of the first quarter before experiencing back spasms that saw her miss the remainder of the game. The Sun took advantage of the League MVP's absence and won Game Two by twelve points. The Sun were led by Jonquel Jones who achieved the WNBA Finals' first ever thirty point and fifteen rebound game. Jones finished with thirty-two points and eighteen rebounds. The Mystics were able to tie the score at seventy-six, with eight minutes remaining, but Jones re-entered the game after sitting on the bench with four fouls. She returned to the game and helped the Sun finish off the win. With the series tied at one game apiece, the series heads to Connecticut for the next two games. The Sun now have home court advantage in the series.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 3
Elena Delle Donne played through her herniated disk and contributed 13 points in the Mystics road win. Washington got out to a hot start, going up fifteen points in the first quarter. They then took a five point lead into halftime and never looked back, winning by thirteen points. Their road win brings them within one game of the WNBA Championship. The Mystics had four players score in double figures, with two reaching over twenty points. The Sun also had four players score in double figures, but none reached the twenty point mark.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 4
The Sun stormed out to a fifteen point lead in the first quarter and held off a late Mystics charge to win Game 4, and force a deciding Game 5. The Mystics made a run after halftime, winning the third quarter by sixteen points, and tying the game going into the fourth quarter, but it was not enough to overcome the Sun. Alyssa Thomas starred for the Sun, coming within two rebounds of the first WNBA Finals triple double. Jonquel Jones also recorded a double double for the Sun. The Mystics lead by five at one point in the fourth, but the Sun hit two three pointers to gain the lead for good with 2:22 left. Connecticut went four for four on free throws in the last minute to seal the game.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 5
Game five was a tight affair in the first half, with the Sun taking a one point lead into half time. The game continued to be close in the third quarter. The Sun took a two point lead into the final period. However, season MVP Elena Delle Donne scored four of her twenty-one points during an 8–0 run with three minutes left to seal the win for the Mystics. The Mystics won the fourth quarter by thirteen points, and the game by eleven.


2019 WNBA Finals, Summary, Game 5
The win secured the Mystic's their first title in franchise history, and leaves the Sun still looking for their franchise's first title. Emma Meesseman lead the Mystics in scoring, with twenty two points. She was named the Finals MVP and became the first bench player to win the award. Jonquel Jones lead the Sun with twenty-five points and Alyssa Thomas had twenty-one points and twelve rebounds, but it was not enough to overcome the Mystics.


2019 WNBA Playoffs
The 2019 WNBA Playoffs were the postseason tournament of the WNBA's 2019 season. The Washington Mystics won the team's first WNBA title in their 22 year franchise history.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Format
Following the WNBA regular season, the top eight teams in the overall league standings, without regard to conference alignment, qualified for the playoffs and were seeded from one to eight. Seedings were based strictly on regular-season record. The team with the best record received the #1 seed, the team with the next best record received the #2 seed, and so on. The top two seeds earned double byes (i.e., advanced directly to the semifinals), while the next two seeds received first-round byes.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Format
These seedings were used to create a bracket that determines the matchups throughout the playoffs. The first round of the playoffs consisted of two matchups based on the seedings (5-8 and 6-7). The two winners advanced to the second round with a matchup between the number three seed and the lower of the advancing seeds and another matchup between the number four seed and the other first round winner. The winners of the first two rounds advanced to the semifinals, where the lower-ranked seed of the winners faces the number one seed, with the other remaining team facing the number two seed.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Format
The first two rounds were single-elimination games played on the higher ranking seed's home court. The semifinals and WNBA Finals are best-of-five series played in a 2-2-1 format, meaning the team with home-court advantage (better record) hosts games 1, 2, and 5 while their opponent hosts games 3 and 4.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoff qualifying
Seattle earned the sixth seed via the first tie-breaker of head to head record versus the Lynx in the regular season. Seattle won the regular season series 3–0.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoff qualifying
For the third straight year, five teams from the Western Conference qualified for the playoffs, while only three from the Eastern Conference qualified.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Sky vs. Mercury
In 2019's first playoff game the #5 Chicago Sky hosted the #8 seed Phoenix Mercury. During the regular season, Chicago posted a solid 12–5 home record while Phoenix had a 6–11 road record. Phoenix also limped into the playoffs, losing its last four games, including a 105–78 loss to Chicago on September 1. Chicago came into the game having won just two of their last five games.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Sky vs. Mercury
The first quarter of the game was a close affair, with the score being 44–41 going into halftime. However, with 8:18 left in the second quarter, the Mercury lost Brittney Griner to a left knee injury. She played sparingly in the third quarter, but would go on to miss the rest of the game. The Sky broke away during the third quarter, and took a 13-point lead into the final period. The Sky continued to dominated and ended up winning the game by 29 points. The final score was just two points different from the September 1 meeting between the teams. The Sky were led by Diamond DeShields who scored 25 points. Astou Ndour and Stefanie Dolson also added 16 points each. Additionally, Allie Quigley and Cheyenne Parker scored in double figures.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Storm vs. Lynx
In the second first round game, the #6 Seattle Storm hosted the #7 Minnesota Lynx. The Storm endured a difficult season in which their two stars, Breanna Stewart and Sue Bird missed the whole season. The two were key contributors on last season's championship team. The Storm finished the regular season with an 11–6 home record, despite having to play in a temporary home. The Lynx finished 7–10 on the road in a season where they also dealt with the absence of star Maya Moore. The teams finished with identical 18–16 regular season records. Seattle was selected as the host via the tie-breaker of winning the regular season series 3–1. Both teams had won four of their last five games heading into the matchup.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, First Round, Storm vs. Lynx
The second game of the evening proved to be a closer affair than the first. Ultimately, Seattle proved to be in control for most of the game, advancing to the second round with a ten-point win. Minnesota scored with 5:52 remaining in the game to draw within four points, but could not gain the lead from there. Jordin Canada scored a career high 26 points, and Jewel Lloyd scored 22 points to lead the Storm. Minnesota had three players score in double-digits, but the rest of the team only scored 21 points combined. Napheesa Collier became the first rookie since Candace Parker to score a double-double in her playoff debut.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Sparks vs. Storm
The first game of the second round will had the #3 seed Los Angeles Sparks host the #6 seed Seattle Storm. The Sparks earned a first round bye, finishing with a 22–12 record, including a 15–2 home record, which was tied for the league best. Their last home loss was on June 18. The Sparks also won four of their last five regular season games. The Storm advanced to the second round by defeating the Minnesota Lynx in the first round. The Storm had a 7–10 road record in the regular season. The Sparks won the regular season series 2–1, with both wins coming at home.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Sparks vs. Storm
The Storm got out to a quick start, leading 23–22 after the first quarter. However, their lead quickly faded, and they trialed 43–36 by halftime. Los Angeles closed with a strong fourth quarter to win by 23 and advance to the Semifinals. Four of the five Spark's starters ended the game with double-digit points scored. First-year head coach Derek Fisher lead the Sparks to the victory in his first playoff game in the WNBA. Three key contributors in the game for the Sparks missed a combined total of 73 games during the regular season (Parker, Williams, and Vadeeva). The Storm also had four of five starters in double figures, but their bench was outscored 27–13. The Storm could not defend their title from last season.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Aces vs. Sky
The second game of the second round saw the Las Vegas Aces host the Chicago Sky. The Aces were returning to the playoffs for the first time since 2014, when they were based in San Antonio. The Aces finished the regular season with a 21–13 record, including a 13–4 home record. The Sky come into the game on the back of a first round win against the Phoenix Mercury. Chicago finished with an 8–9 road record during the regular season. The Aces won the regular season series 2–1.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Second Round, Aces vs. Sky
The game was close throughout, with the Sky leading by six points at the half. The Aces came out with a strong third quarter and went into the fourth with a one-point lead. The Sky were up by one with fifteen seconds to play. The Sky in-bounded to Courtney Vandersloot who had 300 assists and 96 turnovers during the regular season. Under pressure from two Aces defenders, she threw an errant pass that was intercepted by Dearica Hamby. Hamby dribbled past half-court and heaved a shot with just under seven seconds remaining. The shot fell and gave the Aces the 93–92 win. Both Liz Cambage and A'ja Wilson recorded double-doubles for the Aces. With the Aces' win, 2019 became the first playoff year to have all four home teams win since the WNBA switched to the current playoff format in 2016.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Mystics vs. Aces
The Aces won their second round game to earn a spot in the Semifinals versus the Mystics. The Mystics have home court advantage thanks to their WNBA best 26–8 regular season record. The Mystics won the regular season series 2–1, with the road team winning each game. The Mystics finished the season strong, winning their last six games, and 12 of their last 14 games. The Mystics come into the series having won ten straight home games.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Mystics vs. Aces
The first quarter was a close affair, with the Aces shooting 73.3% but still trailing. They carried that momentum into a seven-point halftime lead. However, the Mystics came back in the third quarter, winning the quarter by ten points and carrying a three-point lead into the final period. The Mystics managed to hold off an Aces comeback and win by two points. The Mystics lead by as many as thirteen in the fourth quarter, and the Aces never managed to pull ahead, always trailing by at least two points. Emma Meesseman scored a career playoff high twenty seven points. A'ja Wilson scored twenty three points to lead the Aces.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Mystics vs. Aces
Game two proved to be a tight affair in the first half, with the Mystics taking a one-point lead into halftime. The Aces briefly lead in the third quarter, but the Mystics won the quarter by ten points, and the game by twelve. The Mystics have now won four of the last five games between the two teams, including the regular season. Emma Meesseman lead the Mystics in scoring for the second straight game. Meesseman did not play with the team last year, and has proved to be a difference maker in the first two games of the series. Four players scored doubles-doubles in the game. Elena Delle Donne and Liz Cambage achieved a double-double with points and rebounds, while Natasha Cloud and Kelsey Plum reached theirs via points and assists.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Mystics vs. Aces
Facing elimination, the Las Vegas Aces used a strong second and third quarter to win their first game in the series. Stars A'ja Wilson and Liz Cambage combined for 49 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Aces. The Aces also out-rebounded the Mystics 40–28. The Aces also improved on their defense, holding the Mystics to only one starter who scored in double-digits, Elena Delle Donne. The Aces players also credited the home crowd with some help in the improved effort.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Mystics vs. Aces
The Aces looked to keep their momentum from their previous win going in their second and final home game of the series. They got out to a quick start, winning the first quarter by nine points. However, the Mystics won the second quarter by eleven points to take a two-point lead into halftime. The Aces won the third quarter by three points to take a lead into the fourth. The Mystics were able to close out the win and advance to the finals. Elena Delle Donne, Emma Meesseman, and Kristi Toliver all score twenty plus points for the Mystics, while only Liz Cambage scored over twenty for the Aces.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Sun vs. Sparks
The Los Angeles Sparks dominated their Second Round matchup to earn a spot in the Semifinals versus the Connecticut Sun. Connecticut had the WNBA's second best regular season record at 23–11. However, the Sun finished the regular season 3–3, including losses in their last two games. The Sun had a 15–2 home record, which was tied for the WNBA's best with the Sparks. The Sparks won the regular season series 2–1, with the home team winning each matchup.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Sun vs. Sparks
The first two quarters were a back and forth affair, with the Sun winning the first quarter by seven points and the Sparks winning the second quarter by ten points. However, the Sun scored the first nine points after halftime and never looked back. The Sun won their first playoff game since 2012 behind four double-digit scorers. The Sparks had two players score twenty or more points, but no other players scored in double-digits. The Sun held the Sparks starting back court to 3–17 shooting and force seventeen turnovers. This was Chiney Ogwumike's first playoff game in Connecticut since the former Sun star was granted a trade to LA in the offseason. She was booed when the lineups were announced and each time she touched the ball.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Sun vs. Sparks
The first half of game two was a story of two quarters, with the Sparks winning the first quarter by seven points, but the Sun winning the second by eight points. The Sun took a one point lead into halftime. The Sun won the third quarter by twelve points, propelled by Courtney Williams, who scored thirteen of her twenty five points in the quarter. The Sun also won the fourth quarter by thirteen points, to wrap up a twenty-six point win. The Sun out rebounded the Sparks 46–24 and set a WNBA Playoff record for rebounds in a half with their 29 in the first half. Both teams had four players score in double-digits, but the Sun had two twenty point scorers, while the Sparks had zero.


2019 WNBA Playoffs, Playoffs and Finals, Semifinals, Sun vs. Sparks
The Sun won every quarter, including the third by eleven points on their way to a twenty-two point win, and a series sweep. The game was played at the Walter Pyramid because the Spark's usual home, the Staples Center, was hosting the Emmy Awards. Jasmine Thomas and Courtney Williams combined for forty-six points and were the only Sun players to score in double-digits. However, only Nneka Ogwumike scored in double digits for the Sparks in the low-scoring affair. Williams completed a double-double with thirteen rebounds. The Sun return to the WNBA Finals for the first time since 2005.


2019 WNBA draft
The 2019 WNBA draft was the league's draft for the 2019 WNBA season. On March 19, the league announced the draft would be held on April 10 at Nike New York headquarters. The first round was televised on ESPN2, and the second and third rounds were televised on ESPNU.


2019 WNBA draft
On August 28, 2018, the league held the draft lottery between the four non-playoff teams – Indiana, New York, Las Vegas, and Chicago. The Aces won the top pick for the third year in a row. For just the second time, all five players of one school's starting lineup was drafted, when Notre Dame's starting five were selected in the first 20 picks.


2019 WNBA draft, Draft lottery
The lottery selection to determine the order of the top four picks in the 2019 draft took place on August 28, 2018 during halftime of the 2018 WNBA Playoffs game between the Atlanta Dream and Washington Mystics.


2019 WNBA draft, Draft lottery, Lottery chances
All odds out of 1,000 based on percentages. (The 11-12-13-14 combination is ignored.)


2019 WNBA draft, Draft lottery, Lottery chances
The lottery odds were based on combined records from the 2017 and 2018 WNBA seasons. The Aces won the Draft Lottery for the third year in a row, previously selecting Kelsey Plum in 2017 and A'ja Wilson in 2018. Plum was selected when the team was still located in San Antonio.


2019 WNBA draft, Draft lottery, Lottery chances
The order of selection for the remainder of the first round as well as the second and third round was in inverse order of the teams’ respective regular-season records solely from 2018.


2019 WNBA draft, Draft invitees
On April 9, 2019, one day before the Draft, the WNBA released the names of the players who would be invited to be in attendance at the draft.


2019 WNBA draft, Draft invitees
Three of these players were not chosen until the second round, with Cunningham, Han, and Gustafson respectively chosen 13th, 14th, and 17th overall.


2019 WNBA draft, Draft-day trades
Draft-day trades occurred on April 10, 2019, the day of the draft.


2019 WNBA season
The 2019 WNBA season was the 23rd season of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The Seattle Storm were the defending champions. The regular season began on May 24, with the Atlanta Dream hosting the Dallas Wings and the New York Liberty hosting the Indiana Fever. The season ended with the Washington Mystics securing their first WNBA Title over the Connecticut Sun three games to two, in a closely contested finals. Emma Meesseman was named Finals MVP and teammate Elena Delle Donne was named regular season MVP.


2019 WNBA season, 2019 WNBA draft
The Las Vegas Aces had the first pick in the 2019 WNBA draft on April 10, marking the third straight draft in which the franchise won the lottery for the top pick. With the top pick, the Aces selected Jackie Young from Notre Dame. The draft was televised nationally on the ESPN networks (Round 1 on ESPN2, Rounds 2 and 3 on ESPNU).


2019 WNBA season, Rule changes
The WNBA Board of Governors approved two rule changes at their November 15, 2018 meeting that would go into effect during the 2019 season.


2019 WNBA season, Media coverage
On April 22, 2019, CBS Sports Network announced a multi-year deal with the league to broadcast 40 games a season starting in May 2019. On June 27, 2019, TSN, Sportsnet, and NBA TV Canada announced a multi-year deal with the league to broadcast 53 games combined a season starting on June 28, 2019.


2019 WNBA season, Transactions, Free agency
Free agency negotiations began on January 15, 2019, with the signing period starting on February 1, 2019.


2019 WNBA season, Regular season, Statistical leaders
The following shows the leaders in each statistical category during the 2019 regular season.


2019 WNBA season, Playoffs
The WNBA continued its current playoff format for 2019. The top eight teams, regardless of conference, make the playoffs, with the top two teams receiving a bye to the semi-finals. The remaining six teams play in two single-elimination playoff rounds, with the third and fourth seeds receiving a bye to the second round.


2019 WNBL Finals
The 2019 WNBL Finals was the postseason tournament of the WNBL's 2018–19 season. The Townsville Fire were the defending champions, however they failed to qualify for the finals series.


2019 WPA Players Championship
The 2019 WPA Players Championship was a 9-Ball pool international event held in Las Vegas, Nevada. The event was organized jointly by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) and CueSports International (CI). The event was played with alternate break rules, from a field of 64, with players qualifying from tours such as the WPA and European Pocket Billiard Federation.


2019 WPA Players Championship, Tournament format
The event consisted of a field of 64 players, with qualification spots given to players in the following ratio:


2019 WPA Players Championship, Tournament format
Matches were played with a shot clock, and under alternate break rules.


2019 WPA Players Championship, Tournament format, Prize fund
The event had a prize fund of $66,000, with prize money being paid out of players entrance fees, plus $50,000.


2019 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
The 2019 WPA World Nine-ball Championship was a nine-ball pool championship, which took place from December 13 to 17, 2019 at the al-Arabi Sports Club in Doha, Qatar. The defending champion was Germany's Joshua Filler, who won the 2018 event defeating Carlo Biado in the final 13–10.


2019 WPA World Nine-ball Championship
Russian Fedor Gorst won the event, defeating Taipei's Chang Jung-lin in the final 13–11.


2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship
The 2019 Predator World Ten-ball Championship was a professional pool tournament for the discipline of ten-ball organised by the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA) and CueSports International. It was the fifth WPA World Ten-ball Championship; the previous championship was held in 2015. After plans for an event in both 2016 and 2018 to be held in Manila fell through, a 2019 event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas as part of a three-year deal for the event to be played in the United States was agreed. The event was held concurrently with the Billiard Congress of America's National Ten-ball event from July 22 to 26. The event was sponsored by cue manufacturer Predator Group.


2019 WPA World Ten-ball Championship
The competition featured 64 participants, selected according to world and continental pool rankings as well as qualifying events. The tournament was played as a double-elimination bracket until 16 players remained, at which point it changed to a single-elimination format. Ko Ping-chung, representing Chinese Taipei, won the event, defeating German player Joshua Filler 10–7 in the final. Ko's brother Ko Pin-yi, who was the defending champion, lost to Filler 10–8 in the semi-final. The event featured a prize fund of $132,000, the winner receiving $30,000.